An issue with AVSpeechSynthesizer, Any workarounds?

Question

I am using AVSpeechSynthesizer to play text. I have an array of utterances to play.

    NSMutableArray *utterances = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
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Answer 1

All answers here failed, and what I came up with is stopping the synthesizer and then re-instantiate it:

- (void)stopSpeech
{
    if([_speechSynthesizer isSpeaking]) {
        [_speechSynthesizer stopSpeakingAtBoundary:AVSpeechBoundaryImmediate];
        _speechSynthesizer = [AVSpeechSynthesizer new];
        _speechSynthesizer.delegate = self;
    }
}